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Judgment. You can teach someone to fly, you can teach someone to navigate, and you can teach someone to communicate. Teaching common sense and good judgment is much harder, if not impossible. So, for me, a pilot who appears to exercise good judgment has a HUGE advantage in my view of...

I love that Lake Erie photo! I'm partial to that lake, as I grew up just five minutes from there.

Yeah, I have the new version, and I also don't really like the push-pull design of the old one. I love the new lens so far, though there are times I'd enjoy the speed of the 2.8 aperture (but I sure can't afford the 400mm f/2.8 prime lens). Your photos are great though! I'll look through...

That's a great camera, and I recently got one myself! I'm using a 100-400 F4.5-5.6 IS lens myself, but I've only heard great things about the 70-200L. I actually just went up to KBJC to take some photos of planes landing yesterday, though the light wasn't really phenomenal for that kind of...

:) Seems to be a lot of us Colorado-folk around here from what I've seen so far!

I've prepared the following checklist for dealing with an iPad failure in flight: SQAUWK: 7700 RADIO: 121.5 KEY MIKE: SCREAMMMMMM Mayday repeatedly. Joking aside, the iPad is a great tool, and I can't believe what it has done to make navigation more straightforward these days...

DISCLAIMER: I'm not a lawyer. My guess: 1) If your passenger took the pictures and you received no compensation for them, I think you're fine. 2) If you were compensated for the pictures the passenger took, I think the water might be a bit more murky. 3) If the pictures weren't...

Could this have been a settling with power issue?

I was thinking the same thing... Stand there and watch them drown like an idiot. Shaft failure sounds like a reasonable explanation based on what I could see and hear.

Meh... I guess I just can't bring myself to care too much about the nuances of proper pilot licensure terminology. When I talk to non-pilots it is a "license", pilots usually call it a "rating" or a "certificate", and while a student pilot is technically a certificated pilot, in practice...

I'm not 100% on this, but I seem to recall that the 180hp Lycoming that is recommended for the RV's has an STC available for Mogas in other aircraft. I believe the 200hp option is not considered Mogas-compatible. But, since it's an experimental, I suppose the user could (in theory) do whatever...

Very good point!

That's sort of how I've always seen it. I know a number of airline pilots who have starved at regionals, a number that have made good fair pay at the majors, and only maybe one or two who are at the top of the pyramid pay-wise. I also know a couple who just took a big hit... She lost her...

You guys have an impressive pay scale, I won't argue with that. But, being a FO with your airline is hardly a pilot's first job, right? I mean, to get the position you mentioned (that will pay $100K or more by the second year), I'm guessing the average pilot has already spent *at least* a...

We're about three minutes from you, close to Arvada West High School... 60th and Simms area.

15 Gusting to 30 knots at KBJC per the AWOS right now… not as bad as I was expecting thus far.

I'm certainly no pro at this compared to many of you, but I'll definitely say that you can spin a C152 fairly reliably with the correct inputs. Admittedly, it will often recover by itself if you just let go of the pro-spin control inputs. But, I've done several 6-turn spins in a 152. I...

At the flight school where I learned to fly (part of a university program) spins were not allowed until a student was going for their CFI. I was lucky enough to have an instructor who thought that was a dangerous restriction, and he did spin training with me on a promise that we wouldn't...

This is actually news to me… I was taught years ago that the transponder was to be set to standby when on the ground, and only set to ALT before takeoff. The checklists at the flight school where I rent also show that (apparently outdated) procedure. But, I also took a few years off from...

That will be a mess for trucking traffic, because I believe I-70 through Glenwood Canyon is still closed due to those rockslides… not a whole lot of other routes through the mountains (without an airplane, of course).